Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15
N1513F is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Old Town, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 3, 2012 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated March 14, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons Inc
- Model
- FIREFLY 8B-15 · all FIREFLY 8B-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F8B-2014
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A0D0AD (octal 50150255)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 3, 2012
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · To show compliance with regulations · March 14, 2002
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00254027
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bart Francis A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 955
Old Town, FL 32680-0955
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N1513F, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Bart Francis A, an individual, certificate issued December 3, 2012, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated March 14, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-2014 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1513F was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 185D (serial 1850836, cancelled June 6, 1981). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1513F. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data